[gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-14 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm running Gentoo (of course) with Blackbox as my WM. I got a digital camera several weeks ago, and am now playing around with 2590 x 1920 sized images in Gimp. My monitor can't go quite *THAT* high, but 1600 x 1200 (for that matter 1560 x 1170) is large enough for Gimp to display its toolbox

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-14 Thread Zac Medico
Walter Dnes wrote: I'm running Gentoo (of course) with Blackbox as my WM. I got a digital camera several weeks ago, and am now playing around with 2590 x 1920 sized images in Gimp. My monitor can't go quite *THAT* high, but 1600 x 1200 (for that matter 1560 x 1170) is large enough for Gimp to

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread George Garvey
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:28:44PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Although it seems like your X dpi setting should match the physical > resolution of your monitor, it can be used to tweak font sizes. There is > an X -dpi command line setting documented in the Xserver manpage and a > DisplaySize dir

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread Zac Medico
George Garvey wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:28:44PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: Although it seems like your X dpi setting should match the physical resolution of your monitor, it can be used to tweak font sizes. There is an X -dpi command line setting documented in the Xserver manpage and a

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread George Garvey
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:58:26AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > I know of a couple text size related extensions for firefox. > > http://www.splintered.co.uk/extensions/ > https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Miscellaneous&numpg=10&id=55 Thanks for that.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:24:22AM -0700, George Garvey wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 11:28:44PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > Although it seems like your X dpi setting should match the physical > > resolution of your monitor, it can be used to tweak font sizes. There is > > an X -dpi command

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:24:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote > The question is precisely whether his X dpi matches his physical dpi. > I used to have a similar problem when I tried to run 1280 x 1024 on my > laptop and get itsy-bitsy fonts. > > Then I took a ruler and measured the monitor and set

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-15 Thread Tom Naujokas
On Mon, 2005-15-08 at 22:09 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > The one part I haven't figured out is xterm. If I {ALT-RIGHT-CLICK} > in an xterm, I get a menu that will alter font sizes. How do I change > the default font size that xterm comes up with? You can control xterm fonts with either command

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Tom Naujokas schreef: > On Mon, 2005-15-08 at 22:09 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > >> The one part I haven't figured out is xterm. If I {ALT-RIGHT-CLICK} >>in an xterm, I get a menu that will alter font sizes. How do I change >>the default font size that xterm comes up with? > > > You can con

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-23 Thread Fernando Canizo
El 15/ago/2005 a las 23:09 -0300, Walter me decĂ­a: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:24:40PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote > > > The question is precisely whether his X dpi matches his physical dpi. > > I used to have a similar problem when I tried to run 1280 x 1024 on my > > laptop and get itsy-bitsy font

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get larger fonts in X ?

2005-08-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:32:06PM -0300, Fernando Canizo wrote > Seems you have found your solution to this problem, but i want to > add this, maybe unrelated to your problem, but yet usefull: > > In your original solution you have two X servers running at different > resolutions, you don't need